HAM AND DUMPLINGS
This Ham and Dumplings recipe is great for using up leftover ham and what could be better than dumplings. Add some cornbread muffins for a fantastic meal. This is a hearty meal your family will love and it’s great on a cold day.
Ham and Dumplings Ingredients Needed:
Ham, cooked and cut into bite sized pieces or chunks
Green onion
Celery
Water or could use half chicken broth
Salt
Black pepper
Basil
Chives
Parsley flakes
Dumpling Ingredients:
Self Rising Flour
Shortening
Boiling Water
You can add ham bone, too, if you have one and remove before adding dumplings. We have always loved making recipes with dumplings and we love flat dumpling however many love drop dumplings. Either one is delicious and you can use whichever you prefer in this recipe. Here is a great entry on “How to Make Dumplings” and it has great tips as well.
If you love this dish you will also love our Chicken and Dumplings, another comfort food meal that always hits the spot!
“Great recipe. I had a bunch of leftover ham and it had been years since I’ve made ham and dumplings. I mainly have been wanting a great recipe for dumplings as I’ve misplaced my old recipe. Some of the recipes make dumplings that are just too fragile and dissolve in the broth.
These dumplings are perfection. I made this recipe a couple of months ago and I’m craving chicken and dumplings this week. So my husband is stopping by Costco to get a rotisserie chicken so I can make a quick and easy broth and have some extra chicken meat to put in it.” – Mrs. Huff
“This is a wonderful, delicious recipe. I’ve never made ham and dumplings before and was a little skeptical. It turned out so good and my family loved it. Thank you for recipe!” – Linda
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Ham and Dumplings
Ingredients
- 4 to 5 cups ham cooked and cut into bite sized pieces or chunks
- 1/2 cup green onion chopped (can use regular onion)
- 1/2 cup celery chopped
- 12 cups water or could use half chicken broth
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon basil
- 1/2 teaspoon chives
- 1/2 teaspoon parsley flakes
Dumpling Ingredients:
- 2 cups self rising flour
- 1/4 cup of shortening
- Boiling Water
Instructions
- Add all ham ingredients to large soup pot and bring to boil. Simmer for about an hour. Add dumpling recipe below.
- Note: You can add ham bone, too, if you have one and remove before adding dumplings.
Dumplings:
- Pour 2 cups self-rising flour into a large bowl, cut in 1/4 cup shortening with a pastry blender or fork, add 3/4 cup boiling water a little at a time until you can shape the mixture into a ball.
- Knead several times. (Some people like to pinch off pieces of the dough and drop into broth but I like them uniform and this is so easy. Roll out to about 1/8 inch of thickness on a floured board.
- Cut into strips, then squares.
- Note: It is so easy to cut them with a pizza cutter and much quicker and they taste just the same!
- Remove lid on pot and add several squares at a time to the boiling broth replacing lid each time for about 30 seconds until you have added all the dumplings.
- Once all the dumplings are added lower heat to simmer for about 20 minutes.
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